First Amendment predictions

Dec. 26, 2012

Polcinski

Written by

Gene Policinski

Courts have determined that fortunetelling is protected as free speech, so let's freely indulge in some First Amendment-related predictions for 2013:

Given that there is no major lineup of First Amendment cases this term in the U.S. Supreme Court, the main focus here will be legislative.Leaks and sources

On the national-security front, expect Congress and the nation to visit again the free-speech and free-press issues surrounding news sources and the leaking of secrets and classified documents. The major prompt: Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's military trial on charges of aiding the ...